US Physical Geography Notes

The Mississippi River empties into the

• Caribbean Sea

• Gulf of Mexico

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

Between the Gulf Costal Plain and the Appalachian mountains is an area of rolling foothills know as the

• Interior Lowlands

• Piedmont

• Intermountain Basin

• Colorado Plateau

The peaks of the Appalachian mountains are rounded and the Rockies are jagged. This tells us that the Rockies are older and the Appalachian are younger.

• True

• False

The interior lowlands is what three sub-regions

• Great Plains

• Piedmont

• Interior Plains

• Canadian Shield

The (a)   is the high point on the Rockies an separate rivers that flow west to the Pacific or East to the Gulf of Mexico

The Blue Ridge Mountains Are

50% of the oil refining industry is in California

• True

• False

The three subregions of the Intermountain Basin and Plateau region is

• Interior Highlands

• Columbia Plateau

• Colorado Plateau

• Great Basin

Match the mountains

a

b

c

Rocky Mountains

Sierra Nevada Mountains

Cascade Mountains

Rivers from the Great Basin drain to the Pacific Ocean

• True

• False